[Info-vax] OT: obscure PDP11 OSes (even more dinosaury)

[Rich Alderson]

bill at server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:

> On another side note, Unix was developed on the PDP-11.  I wonder how
> much the architecture of the PDP-11 influenced the Unix Paradigm of
> multiple connected programs to do a job as opposed to one monolithic
> program?

Did pipes not come along until the PDP-11 implementation?  I thought they were
on the PDP-7 (which is where Unix was developed; it was developed *further* on
the PDP-11, but most of what we know as Unix had its start on the 18-bit box).

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